Departure from the Rías Altas Regata from the very center of La Coruña in 1979, with an incredible level: "Ardora," "Lanzal," "Dente do Can," "Coruña," "Salseiro," "Alcaravan," "Mascato..."

Pathetic and worrying the wandering of one of the sign races of the Spanish heavy candle, of the Regata de las Rías Altas that has just completed its 43 edition. After two years of hope, 2013 when the 20 ships were rolled and 2014 when they were widely overcome, with clear symptoms of recovery... has again fallen into figures not of the glorious past, but of the darkest past.

Personally carried by the unique current president of the Nautico, immersed in various judicial proceedings the result of the last elections that had a great and worthy end of Spain, the 2015 and 2016 editions have been of everything but beautiful. Last year there were three participating ships! which hit all the disasters and for having. This year something was made up of this matter with a total of 11 ships registered for the gallery, but that really were seven or eight to the maximum. This is a very bad year, this is a terrible recent past.

But the wanes of this president, that still has not approved by the assembly of its partners the accounts of the exercises of several years causing a very serious internal division, do not stop here. Even as a partner of the Club, one of the most prestigious confreres among the Spanish nautical clubs, as is Anton Pelejero, was allowed to be expelled simply because he was shown the failure of his management. Or he invited Julián and Javier Ojea from his team to ship the largest ship in the Atlantic in terms of the "Hansa" an X-62 of Niels Jeppesens. All these avatars have led to the collapse of this historic race, in which doing nonsense and pantomimas, the president scared in 2015 brought together at a dinner award-giving to friends and people from other sports to "The English Court" did not realize their deeds.

The Spanish cruise candle needs the Rías Altas to recover. It needs the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña, once and for all, to be the unquestionable leader of the heavy sail of northern Spain, in union with the Maritime of the Abra, that of Santander, the Astur, the Nautic of Vigo and the Monte Real Club of Yates of Baiona... but to do this we will have to work to the full. The damage that Manocchio He's made the High Rias so big, it's going to cost a lot to get back to the heights of old.

A hot autumn In October, with the judicial channels of this unique president, there are marked trials of what happened. May peace come once and for all to this historic Club and we can celebrate a short-term edition of the Rías Altas, such as those lived between 1977 and 1982, or the most recent from 1998 to 2001... THE SPAIN WEST NEED IT!

Manuel Pedro Seoane
Photo: Archivo Familia Vilariño